The couple, who officials say became radicalised some years ago, were both killed in a shoot-out with police hours after the attack. The husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, might also have plotted an attack as far back as 2012 with one of his long-time friends, senior law enforcement officials have said.
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The timing of the rifle purchases is of great interest to FBI investigators.
“I mean, in all honesty, my greatest fear is more attacks and more dead Americans”, said Senator Orrin Hatch, (R) Utah.
As more details about those involved emerged on Wednesday, Aguirre said she was shocked to learn that Marquez was married.
One GOP presidential candidate, billionaire businessman Donald Trump, earlier this week called for a ban on all Muslims from the United States after the San Bernardino shootings and the attacks in Paris last month.
The FBI believes Farook had ties to a group of jihadists in California who were arrested in 2012 for attempted to travel to Afghanistan to join al Qaeda. No attorney has come forward.
Representative Bob Goodlatte of Virginia, the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, told reporters afterward that there were people in the community who saw suspicious activity at the shooters’ house but decided not to tell authorities “for a variety of reasons”. “He is a really good person”. “I don’t know anything…”
“He’s never done anything mean”, she told the LA Times. “My life changed Wednesday”.
A specific target was weighed, CNN reported, citing two U.S. officials, though they did not identify it.
FBI Assistant Director David Bowdich was tight-lipped when asked about his status in the investigation at a news conference earlier this week.
“I want this to stop”, she said.
Malik moved from Pakistan to the U.S.in July 2014 and married Farook the following month.
The picture that’s emerging of the 24-year-old Walmart clerk who supplied some of the weapons used in the mass shooting at a social services center, is of a quiet, awkward, and sometimes lonely man.
Two of the men were later found guilty, and two pleaded guilty.
Such transactions could be a violation of California law, the officials said. Agents have searched his house, seized potential evidence and interviewed him repeatedly. And we’re working very, very hard to understand did they have any other plans, either for that day or earlier. He had worked at Wal-Mart since May but has since been fired, spokesman Brian Nick said.
Marquez rarely spoke about his family or his marriage, Ramirez said.
Militant groups sought out by Malik likely ignored her approaches because they have become extremely wary of responding to outsiders they do not know or who have not been introduced to them, sources said.
New revelations show a much deeper connection between Farook and Enrique Marquez, his friend who bought the assault rifles used in the shooting, than previously was disclosed.
“When he woke up, he just started laughing”, Lopez said. When approached by Hasan about what was so amusing, Marquez said he wasn’t laughing. Marquez had only worshipped there three to four times over seven years, Hasan said.
“We have no idea what he said because those messages were encrypted”, Comey said.
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Marquez, a convert to Islam whose home was raided at the weekend, is now being treated in a psychiatric ward.
